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Edward Said Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
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"The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of this rather heady mixture of violence and policies that are remarkably unpopular right down to the last iota, it's not hard for demagogues, especially people who claim to speak in the name of religion, in this case Islam, to raise a crusade against the United States and say that we must somehow bring America down."

People America Names
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Edward Young Poet, Playwright
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"We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too."

Dream Names Wish
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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
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"If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents."

Men Names Heaven
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Eli Roth Filmmaker
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"I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes."

People Want Names
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake."

Names Masters Fake
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes."

War Doe Names
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"XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name."

Song Girl Names
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"Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry."

Hands Names Guy
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"A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies."

Names Taken Rocks
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
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"My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it."

Names Add Labels
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
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"There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love."

Believe Names Design
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Eloisa James Author
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"Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis."

Names Son Sorry
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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
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"As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name."

Years Names Numbers
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Emily Bronte Poet, Novelist
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"She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me."

Names Trouble Masters
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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
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"The devil's spirit's trapped inside me. My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man. So I keep conjuring (demons), sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn (Satan) from. I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the monster that's under my bed. Get along with the voices inside of my head."

Men Names Rain
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name."

Names Teaching Atheism
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